And now Kansas City counts 28 homicides so far this year compared to 34 at this time last year. Earlier, local politicos had praised progress that included 10 fewer murders this year than last . . . THAT GAP HAS NOW CLOSED TO 6 and counting . . .

Counting the homicides may give the city's PR gang the chance to talk about all the successes that COMBAT, NoVa, and Aim4Peace are having with the tens of millions they go through, but the real number to look at is the number of shooting incidents where the victims aren' killed.Cold February weather, small caliber weapons, and poor aim all have a whole lot more to do with the lower 2014 number than all the rest of the talking points combined.KCMO will have over 100 murders in 2014 and we'll see a whole new series of excuses and explanations and probably some new programs rolled in from out of town.As long as the mayor, council, and police board aren't engaged in the issue and there is no leadership in the black community to encourage residents to cooperate with the police, nothing will change.

Dear Mr. Tony: Thanks for posting this info--the city's establishment is doing its best to suppress crime news now that KCMO is in the running for the 2016 GOP National Convention. But, again, still not time to push the panic button: We are at 28 homicides for 2014--on average, in 2009-2013 we were at 38 homicides on this calender date. What worries me most, frankly, are not any events in KCMO but the ongoing obsession of the national press corps with racism--there is a lot of racism in the US and that is a most serious problem--but I fail to see the newsworthyness of "stories" like the patriarch of a rural Louisiana family having un-PC views on race or, similarly, that a survivalist in Nevada has un-PC views on race. When one of these stories "breaks" we are treated to Pearl Harbor sized headlines announcing that there are racists in the backwoods of Louisiana nd the mountains of Nevada!!! (And, of course, we are all supposed to be "shocked, do you hear me shocked" at this revelation.) This media obsession about racism could set in motion a national wave of "de-policing" similar to the one in KCMO that was set off by the KCMO Police Board with its hearing on April 11, 2008 on the Salva tragedy. If so, countless innocent black people are going to die violently all over the country. Time for the boys and girls of the national press corps to stop competing for the "Atlanta Race Riot of 1906 Award for Criminally Irresponsible Behavior by a Journalist." Take care and God bless!! In Christ, Ernest Evans

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